Red Yarn (Oshi No Ko > Aqua X Kana)

Gathering

"Hoshino Aqua." Aqua bowed introducing herself. "May I ask, sensei?"

The doctor smiled and nodded. "Ask, I will answer with pleasure."

"Is she Arima Kana?" aqua asked solemnly looking into the doctor's eyes before her.

"Yes she's Arima Kana. I'm Arima Akino's father. Are you one of Kana's friends?" akino asked while checking Kana's pulse.

"Yes, we're at one agency." Aqua answered nervously.

Cana's Dad? Kana's funeral at that time there was no father coming, is it because Kana has not died and cared for her father in this small village?

Many questions filled Aqua's head, but she tried to brush off the questions. Because today he was already very shocked mixed happy and sad when he saw Kana was still alive.

"Are you sure you're shocked to cry?" akino asked with a smile that continued to expand on her face. "You can wait in the chair and talk back to Kana when she realizes Hoshino-san."

"Is he okay?" ask Aqua.

"He's just exhausted. After the break, he will be conscious and can play with the others again" Akino replied.

Akino's gaze continued towards Aqua who was stepping towards the waiting chair in the corner of the room. As a man who had lived for a long time, Akino felt something different from Aqua's gaze on his daughter.

"You want to wait for him to wake up?" akino asked as he sat next to Aqua.

"Yes, I want to apologize to him." Aqua lowered her head. Feel the guilt that continues to envelop him as if never lost.

"Don't take off your hat! I'm going to check on my other patients, so I put Kana here to you." Akino stood up, stepping leaving Aqua in Kana's nursery.

After Akino's departure, Aqua again approached Kana on her bed, staring at Kana's face that had not changed at all. He was one year older than Aqua, but his face was still like a teenager. Her red hair and bangs never change, only her hair starts to be long. Showing her adult-looking self on her cute face.

Aqua's hand tidied up Kana's hair which blocked Kana's white face. Aqua's fingers gently stroked Kana's cheeks. Shaking Aqua looked at Cana's body. His eyes wet again, he was like dreaming of seeing Kana in front of his eyes. 

Is this a dream for him?

Both of Aqua's hands slapped hard both of her cheeks with all her might. The pain ran between his hands and cheeks. The slap imprinted, printing a reddish tint on his cheek. With a slight sense of delight, Aqua again observed Kana's calm face.

The blue-faced young man's eyes were back full, one successful blink made the cheeks wet that were still flushed earlier. Aqua bit her lips, resisting her sobbing and yelling. She hugged Kana, saying sorry a million times.

"Who is crying near me?" kana's voice is heard. A voice that Aqua had not heard for a long time. "Karma? Is that you?"

Aqua grabbed the fingers of Kana. "Generic…."

Suddenly Kana sat down, pulling her hand from Aqua. His eyes were round in disbelief, staring at the man sitting beside his bed in a black jacket suit and black hat.

"Go! Go!" Kana half-screamed, she pulled her body to the end of the bed while hugging her legs. His face was paled and frightened.

"Arima.." call Aqua in shock at Kana's expression. Aqua opened her hat staring sadly at Kana. "It's me, Aqua. Hoshino Aqua!" aqua shouted as she stood closer to Cana.

Kana rolled her eyes. His face is getting pale. He moved his legs in a huff, his hands covered his ears, his eyes staring fearfully at Aqua.

"Please don't kill me! Nay! Please!" kana's panicked exclaim continued with a frustrated cry.

"Go!!!" Kana throws a pillow in her bed towards Aqua. "Go!!!"

Aqua was still in her place, she didn't know what to do now, it felt like it was all for nothing she did. Getting close to her was tantamount to opening up trauma to Kana. Even he still continued to hug his feet and tried to ignore Aqua in front of him.

"Gomen ne Arima…." Aqua turned her body, stepping out of Kana's hospital room.

Hearing Kana's cry, Akino came, his gaze shifted to Aqua who looked frustrated. While he found Kana who was like possessed. Hugging her legs, closing her eyes tightly, shaking her head quickly with a mouth that doesn't stop saying "don't kill me." Before long another young man walked into Kana's nursery. Akino patted Aqua on the shoulder, smiling, embracing her out of the room.

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Akino sat down in front of Aqua, thrusting a glass of canned drink on the table. Staring at Aqua who looked frustrated and sad. Akino knocked on his desk, making Aqua finally look back at Akino.

"You're surprised, aren't you?" ask Akino. Aqua grabbed her canned drink, nodding softly. "Two years isn't enough to treat the trauma of a man who was nearly killed, is it?"

Aqua fell silent. Listening to Kana's father speaking.

"He was afraid of the blonde-haired man, the dark room, the broken glass and the hollow windows. Even he's afraid to leave the house at night." Akino looked up at the sky that night. "Rising from trauma is very difficult. Looking at him now, I'm already very happy that he's coming out of his trauma well."

Aqua lowered her head. "I see what you mean."

Akino smiled. "You can dye your hair for a while so Kana can talk to you."

"Is that influential? The man who nearly killed Arima was my biological father. Many say our faces look alike."

Akino stood up and stroked Aqua's head. "Faces can be the same, but traits and memories won't be the same." Akino thrusts a chocolate bar at Aqua. "Go home, take a shower, have dinner and go to bed. Tomorrow wait at Ishigami's farm, Kana will be there every day." Akino leaned over, approaching Aqua's ears. "Fight…." Akino passed by with a big smile. 

Aqua rounded her eyes not believing what Akino meant to her. Aqua unconsciously showed a deep sense of frustration and sadness as she walked out of Kana's nursery.

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"Let's go home!" The young man who entered after Akino was standing in front of Kana who was still bending her legs. "There is no. You've been cured for a long time, why relapse again?"

"Whisper!" Kana exclaimed as she kicked the bespectacled young man before her.

"Fast the infusion." The bespectacled young man in deep red hair sat on Kana's bed, took off the infusion of Kana and gave alcohol at her anesthetic. "Can we walk?" 

"Can…." Kana got off her bed slowly and stepped side by side with the glasses young man. "Hold my hand, my leg's limp."

The young man stood in front of Kana while turning his back on Kana. "Have gone up" he replied.

Kana hugged the young man by the neck and stepped out of her room. Kana fell silent, she was still thinking about what had just happened. It was unclear who, he was just overwhelmed with fear and darkness that night. His heart was pounding, cold sweat all over his body. Even he heard the voice of the man he longed for, but still could not reach.

"You know that young man?" asked the glasses boy named Karma.

"Don't ask that, just discuss the others." Kana closed her eyes as she and Karma were discharged from the hospital.

Karma glanced at Kana from the tail end of her eyes, the girl had already closed her eyes. Signs he wants to go home soon and doesn't want to see the dark of the night.

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